Polygon reported last month that EA disabled cheetah with a patch after the always-on requirement for SimCity quickly overloaded its servers. The move left players with only two speed options: turtle (slow) and llama (normal). EA restored cheetah on March 30, Polygon said.

Maxis also teased the release of the mysterious SimCity Version 2.0, but did not reveal any information about what it will include. Will the update fix the "painfully restrictive" city size limitations that PCMag analyst Matthew Murray noted in his review, or provide offline playing functionality? "Stay tuned for more info," is all the company said.

Meanwhile, Mac users have been left out of the SimCity drama since it returned last month after a 10-year hiatus. But EA is now returning the game to "the platform that started it all."

On June 11, the exclusively digital version of SimCity will be released via Origin and other online retailers for Mac and PC, regardless of which version is purchased. Those who already bought a physical or digital copy of game for PC will receive the Mac version as a free digital download.

"We didn't want to make any compromises when it came to the Mac so we created a native version that is optimized for the hardware and OSX," Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw said in a statement.

For those who were shut out of SimCity in the early days, EA offered a free PC game download for their troubles. The offering, however, was not enough to prevent EA from winning Consumerist's "worst company" poll this week - for the second year in a row.

Meanwhile, amidst the SimCity troubles, EA CEO John Riccitiello left the company and its board of directors, effective March 30.

Stephanie began as a PCMag reporter in May 2012. She moved to New York City from Frederick, Md., where she worked for four years as a multimedia reporter at the second-largest daily newspaper in Maryland. She interned at Baltimore magazine and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (in the town of Indiana, in the state of Pennsylvania) with a degree in journalism and mass communications.
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